History TearJerker / WesternAnimation

** ''[[Tearjerker/FamilyGuyS13E1TheSimpsonsGuy The Simpsons Guy]]''

* ''TearJerker/{{Feast}}''

* An animated short from Spain titled ''Cuerdas'' (''Ropes''), is about a little girl named Maria from an orphanage who befriends a mute and wheelchair-bound boy. Maria is determined to help and spend time with the boy, teaching him to play soccer and read, and hoping to travel around the world with him when they grow up. The two form a cute bond that lasts until one day, when Maria overhears the orphanage's principal and discovers that the boy died in his sleep the night before. This unexpected situation, as well as Maria's reaction is a ''big'' tearjerker, although the short's ending turns into a heartwarming moment when it's shown that twenty years later, with the orphanage now turned into a school for children with special needs, Maria has become a teacher and still wears a little piece of rope on her wrist that belonged to the boy as a memory of him. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtrHIa0RkAo here]].

* The German animated film ''[[Animation/LaurasStar Laura's Star]]'' is positively adorable and usually pretty heartwarming...and then the audience notices Star is losing losing its light and turning gray, while Laura is unwilling to accept what's going on. Star's dying; this is what losing light and turning gray means for a star. And then in the climax of the film, Star and Laura are both caught in a sudden rainstorm that knocks Laura into a dumpster and sends Star splashing into the river. Laura manages to fish her friend out, but the last of Star's light fades out as she holds it in her arms. And then there's the scene right after, when her neighbor Max finds her sitting under the footbridge, sobbing and telling him to go away.

* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' got much darker during the Axess season, and the episode "Mariko to Yuriko/Ms. Yuri's Mission". Though the HeroicSacrifice at the ending is fairly predictable, what makes it all the sadder is that throughout the episodes, Yuriko is receiving messages from Nebula that she will never be accepted by society again--and they're probably right. She spent the series seemingly as a monster, trying to kill civilians in many terrifying ways.
** Another (probably the most famous tearjerker of the [=NT Warrior=] series) moment would be when Lan is given the SadisticChoice of ether using a Dark Chip on Megaman, or not and letting himself and everyone with him die. Megaman says he's okay with turning into a virus-infected Navi if it saves his friends. Chad and Protoman take the chip and use it themselves.

* ''TearJerker/{{Unikitty}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/AnnabellesWish'':
** The ending where Annabelle is on her last Christmas and she leaves the barn to see Santa Claus for the last time. Santa then grants her wish which she gave up when she was little, to become one of his reindeer; with implied immortality, and restoring her long-lost ability to speak. It sounds ridiculously cheesy, but it genuinely ''isn't''; especially as Billy, her human friend from childhood, narrates what happens, before coming out to see her leave forever.
** Annabelle's dream where she flies (complete with an arrangement of ''[[AwardBaitSong The World From Way Up Here]]'' that really helps turn on the waterworks), and her [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing her ability to speak forever,]] so that [[CuteMute Billy]] will be able to talk for the rest of his life. As it turns out, ''that'' was her real wish; for [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe all the kindness he'd shown her all their lives.]]
--->'''Billy's Grandpa''': To hear you talk, ''[[TitleDrop that]]'' [[TitleDrop was Annabelle's Wish]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73uMxU9eHs Good]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWQhGWROLM Bye]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iszxLxmVV4 Gravedale]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' has several of these:
** When the heroine, who balances between PluckyGirl and {{Wangst}}y teenaged brat, dreams about her [[ParentalAbandonment dead mother]] encouraging her and telling her everything will be all right. It'd be okay if when she woke up she didn't have a deja-vu moment and a full five seconds of disbelieving hope that turns out to be nothing but perfectly mundane.
** When the BigBrotherMentor, who was the only one ready to believe in the heroine, had his career ruined due to an accident that resulted in the heroine replacing him, discovered her true identity and kept the secret, gets his memories partially erased by the BigBad, is PutOnABus and leaves the series. Cue disbelieving tears.
** When the [[WellDoneSonGuy father]] of the heroine, who was presented for most of the series as an [[ParentalAbandonment undeserving]], [[StayInTheKitchen misogynistic]] Jerk, gets his own CharacterDevelopment.
** The BittersweetEnding. Sure, the BigBad was vanquished and Eva is reconciled with her father, but the DoggedNiceGuy who was hopelessly in love with her is [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence stranded in a place]] where he'll never see her again, and the last time we see him he's crying as the spatial ship taking her away leaves.
** Molly's race with Aikka. The end of it... she had no control over the situation, but he thought she did, and the feeling of utter betrayal was evident. ''Painfully'' evident.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Redwall}}'', when Rose died at the end of ''Martin the Warrior''.

* A good deal of the episode Flashback, from ''Static Shock'' was so heartbreaking.

* The ending of that one ''Franchise/CareBears'' movie is pretty sad when Christy gets hit in the crossfire of Dark-Heart's tantrum, then with the last of her strength, frees the care bears and then is seen lying motionless...and she doesn't DisneyDeath without some help.
** The ending credits themselves were a pretty big tearjerker. The nostalgic images of the Care Bears remembering their childhood itself is could be a TearJerker on its own, but coupled with the suprisingly ambiguous lyrics of Forever Young makes it one of the most inexplicably sad things ever.

* The Christmas episode of 'The Magic School Bus' after everyone had worked together to make Wanda her new Nutcracker, and then Arnold is on a train...
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y5GpYQSpVQ "My Mother"]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', sung by the Chipettes after they rescue a baby penguin and decide to return it to its mother, but the obvious paralells to the girls' own situation as orphans and being far away from their adoptive mother.
** The Chipettes were TearJerker material in the original series too. Their past in an Australian OrphanageOfFear made them {{Woobie}}s of the highest caliber, and the episode where they become Miss Beatrice Miller's wards brought more tears.
** The Chipmunks's encounter with their MissingMom, Winnie. Winnie explaining that she really wanted to keep them but truly had no choice, Alvin trying to call them out he felt her absence the most and then running away with his brothers on tow, the Chipmunks being attacked by a wild moose and, after Winnie saves them, thinking she's dead.
** The episode "Cookie Chomper III" where the Chipmunks adopt a kitten and he gets hit by a truck. It was also very depressing seeing how ''realistically'' the Chipmunks reacted to this situation. Naturally, Theodore is all upset and at first in denial. Simon refuses to do the fun stuff he usually likes to do. And Alvin... Dear God, ALVIN IS ACTUALLY CRYING. He even insists all live plants be removed from the house to prevent it from happening again. It can easily cause your eyes to water up, seeing the one Chipmunk that is usually a troublemaker and thinks he is the greatest actually being upset over losing the poor kitten. Then at the end, after accepting it and for the most part getting over the grief, Simon at first thinks it's cruel when they go and adopt a new puppy, but once the puppy plays with Simon's glasses and she licks his face, Simon grows to love her. Additionally, the episode was based off a real-life experience, when Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Kraman's dog Tiger Lily was killed by a car. The Chipmunks' new puppy Lily was named after her.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': The final fate of the Living Laser. After realizing that Iron Man honestly has been trying to help him, he finally finds a purpose by sacrificing his life to save Iron Man, just...fading out in a flicker of sparks.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. Almost the entirety of episodes 25 and 26, but two moments in particular: Sadlygrove's death ([[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Eva's arms, no less)]], and Nox's VillainousBreakdown. WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids?
--> "I'm not dying, Evangelyne. I'm entering the legend." Cue ManlyTears all over the world.
** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Nox's entire life was a big enough tear jerker]] before episode 26, but seeing his ashes on his family's grave had regular viewers in tears.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS5cgybKcI Kitbull]]'', a new (February 2019) release from Pixar. Fierce homeless kitten + abused pit bull = several boxes of tissues.

* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' gives us "Future Shock". An episode that sends most of the gang from HEAT to an alternate, BadFuture version of the year 2028, where humanity is on the run from a race of genetically engineered monsters called the Dragmas. The show intimates that every intelligent Kaiju on Monster Island was unleashed to fight them, and they all failed. Then Nick asks what happened to ''Godzilla''. We're then shown a memorial statue, where Mendel tells us that Godzilla took a LastStand against the Dragmas to protect the last few million or so humans from them. He '''''SUCCEEDED'''''. Proving to be utterly DefiantToTheEnd, it's further implied he [[TakingYouWithMe killed at least a few of them]] [[DoNotGoGentle before he went down]]. Godzilla was very much a HeroWithBadPublicity in the regular timeline and more or less remains so even after this timeline is averted. So to see him memorialized this way was both a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, as well as a heartbreaking ''gut punch'' to know that '''''this''''' is what it took for him to go from being a barely tolerated monster to a genuine hero in the eyes of mankind.